Viorica

t Hall dropped so suddenly

catching the faint blue light rising from the

u enter my citadel uninvited, threaten my strategi

a Miron di

y around her slender frame. She looked exactly as I remembered her from five years ag

n the only person wh

eyes we

King Lucian," she replied.

around the dagger at my wais

a brief moment, something resem

o save yo

laugh e

rothal and throw me out of his kingdom. You

at was ne

ened, echoing t

have awakened years ago. And the Moon Goddess would have

red a

t po

ff, its silver run

, and forgotten. Instead, you've become

his Alpha aura press

protection. Threaten her again, and

smiled

The bond isn't a gift. It's a leash, created to tie her bloodline to yours befor

n to burn ben

le

but he didn't take

body's puppet

he charged towa

to

r staff against

l wave. The force struck Lucian, sending him stumbling backward. He r

ould move, the Great

with a squad of armed guards. "Th

m. Her attention r

d my mind, quiet

wants your blood, and the king wants your h

ach tig

eclipse, or both kingdoms wi

er!" Rad

sbows fir

adows. Her staff flashed, filling t

s struck the stone r

small pile of silver dus

seconds, n

ing guards to secure the entrances w

od, trying to make sen

nowhere, threatened my life, and va

new more about my

settled agai

n beside me, his amber

you h

N

nded distant

rist before lookin

Whatever she wants, we won't le

to beli

ing empty threats. She'd looked like so

ntirely lying

xpression

e faint silver glow beneath the old s

xiled. It didn't awaken when I built

his

your wolf recogniz

said

ocked something inside my blood. Something Sorina and t

, his jaw tightening as th

d whether he was afraid

eached fo

idn't try to pull me closer

ace it togeth

face for doubt

what Sorina

r eyes h

n't decide who you are. And nobody, not even the

st loosened, though

learning how to survive

d built, and the one person fate had chosen to bind me to was off

ed his h

find out what the

expressio

wi

cross the mountains, and

adel's walls, the Blood

I feared that surviving my past might